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Sarah Polley–directed Alias Grace set to film in Toronto

Actor and director Sarah Polley will begin shooting her long-planned adaption of Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel, Alias Grace, in Toronto this August. Polley originally announced the project as a big-screen motion picture in 2012, but in 2014 plans ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

Kids’ CBC adapting Margaret Atwood’s Wandering Wenda

By Sarah Kester

Margaret Atwood's alliterative Wenda will be wandering to television screens in winter 2017, Kids' CBC has announced. The animated series from Breakthrough Entertainment, inspired by Atwood's children's book The Wide World of Wandering Wenda, began ... Read More »

May 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children's publishing

Margaret Atwood wins Kitschies Red Tentacle Award

By Becky Robertson

Margaret Atwood 2015's dystopian novel, The Heart Goes Last, is the winner of this year's Red Tentacle Award at the U.K. Kitschies. Atwood accepted the £1,000 prize (while wearing a tentacle fascinator) at a ceremony ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Margaret Atwood named keynote speaker for Toronto SpecFic Colloquium

By Becky Robertson

The Chiaroscuro Reading Series has announced Margaret Atwood will give the keynote address at its 2016 Toronto SpecFic Colloqium, a science-fiction, fantasy, and horror writing event taking place at the University of Toronto's Innis Town ... Read More »

February 11, 2016 | Filed under: Authors

Margaret Atwood and Margaret MacMillan join 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival roster

By Becky Robertson

Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Margaret MacMillan, along with Montreal photographer Velibor Božović, will join a roster of more than 222 authors from India and abroad at the 2016 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, which runs ... Read More »

December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Margaret Atwood tries her hand at graphica with new series

By Becky Robertson

Margaret Atwood has signed a three-book deal with Oregon-based publisher Dark Horse to write a series of graphic novels. Atwood's comic story will focus on the character Angel Catbird, a part-human, part-cat, part-owl superhero, and will ... Read More »

December 9, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Q&A: Lakes of Canada’s Jake Smith on turning personal tragedy and A Handmaid’s Tale into music

By Nathaniel Basen

Montreal indie musician Jake Smith first read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel A Handmaid’s Tale in 2011. He found a copy of the book while cleaning his mother's home, following her shocking murder there the previous fall. Now, ... Read More »

October 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Andre Alexis, Margaret Atwood among 2015 Toronto Book Award finalists

By Becky Robertson

The finalists for this year's Toronto Book Award, honouring books evocative of the city, have been revealed. The shortlisted authors will perform readings from their respective titles at the Word on the Street festival at ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

National Post’s censorship of Atwood spurs media flurry

By Becky Robertson

Over the weekend, the National Post faced a whirlwind of attention and criticism – much if it involving puns about hair – from both traditional and social media after it removed a column by Margaret ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

2015 fiction fall preview

By Steven W. Beattie

Two sides of George Bowering One of Canada’s key postmodernists, co-founder of the influential literary journal TISH, Canada’s inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Governor General’s Literary Award winner, novelist, critic, historian, editor: there is very little ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

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Search Results by tag: Margaret Atwood

Sarah Polley–directed Alias Grace set to film in Toronto

Kids’ CBC adapting Margaret Atwood’s Wandering Wenda

Margaret Atwood wins Kitschies Red Tentacle Award

Margaret Atwood named keynote speaker for Toronto SpecFic Colloquium

Margaret Atwood and Margaret MacMillan join 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival roster

Margaret Atwood tries her hand at graphica with new series

Q&A: Lakes of Canada’s Jake Smith on turning personal tragedy and A Handmaid’s Tale into music

Andre Alexis, Margaret Atwood among 2015 Toronto Book Award finalists

National Post’s censorship of Atwood spurs media flurry

2015 fiction fall preview

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